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There was a very interesting mail conversation today which I want to share. - It is/may be relevant for applications which were developped > 10 years ago and did not use PageBean-class (because it was not available this point of time). Beans had to be picked from the dispatcher.

So all users from 2011 on can skip this info...

First Question was: how can you run a page bean within an existing non-page bean as ROWPAGEBEANINCLUDE? - The answer is simple: you can just do it! The new page bean must implement IPageBean best by extending PageBean-class.

Now the problem: the bean can't be easily turned into a page bean by extending PageBean-class because there is already an inheritance tree on top of the bean that cannot be changed to page bean.

So how can you add a minimal IPageBean implementation to a non-page-bean to make it useable by ROWPAGEBEANINCLUDE?

The following is the response:

Code:

 public class M20_innerUI
     implements IPageBean, Serializable
 {
     String m_actualRootExpression;
     long m_stamp = UniqueIdCreator.createCounter();
     
     public M20_innerUI()
     {
     }
 
     public String getPageName() { return "/ztest/m20_inner.xml"; }
     public String getRootExpressionUsedInPage() { return "#{d.M20_innerUI}"; }
 
     // implementation of IPageBean - reduce to minimum, no popups
     
     @Override
     public void setActualRootExpression(String rootExpression) { m_actualRootExpression = rootExpression; }
     @Override
     public String getActualRootExpression()
     {
         if (m_actualRootExpression != null)
             return m_actualRootExpression;
         else
             return getRootExpressionUsedInPage();
     }
     @Override
     public long getStamp() { return m_stamp; }
     @Override
     public void onBeforeRendering() { /* add any code */ }
     
     // no popup management!
 
     @Override
     public ModalPopup openModalPopup(IPageBean pageBean, String title, int width, int height, IModalPopupListener popupListener) { throw new Error("Not implemented"); }
     @Override
     public ModelessPopup openModelessPopup(IPageBean pageBean, String title, int width, int height, IModelessPopupListener popupListener) { throw new Error("Not implemented"); }
     @Override
     public void closePopup(IPageBean pageBean) { throw new Error("Not implemented"); }
     @Override
     public IPageModifier getPageModifier() { return null; }
 }

Please see this snippet as bridge to overcome this situation - but do not see this as great general strategy!

Kind regards! Björn